Forward

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling- Arthur Brisbane

Receiving lots and lots of email from your friend can either make your really happy or writhe in annoyance. Happy when you are the receipient of an email that was compose with you in mind, with words that warm your soul and fact that intrigued you. It makes you feel you feel significant, having a person to actually remembers you.

The squirming come when you are the receipient of an email longer that the Secretary of State letter with other people email addresses (that you don't even know!) dominating almost three quater of the page. The content....the forward of forward of other people forward massage, telling you that either they are glad to be your friend (isn't that sweet ), a forwarding massage warning you of a taxi driver robbing pasengger, a warning from Bank Negara about a fraud, collection of pictures that turns your stomach content or pornographic pictures that was sent by a person with the misguided sense that he was preaching to save the world from satan.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the preaching, we do need to remind ourself about the Supreme Being but to post your preaching accompanied with soft-porn of other people unholy action...don't you think it defeat the whole purpose of your preach. It suppose to serve as example but what example are you setting by sending the lewd pictures to the world?. Isn't part of the sin of humiliating the person in the pictures would be upon you in return?

As the massage of appreciating you as a friend, I'm not being a bore here but I certainly would feel much better if I know the person sending the massage actually remembers me rather than being a convinient email address that happen to be in the address book. It would be much more appreciated if the word 'forward' in the massage title wasn't repeated five times over or the most of the massage is full of other peoples email that received the same massage but forwarded by other people instead. To make matter worse if I happen to be in 10 persons address book...and all ten decided to forward the same appreciation to me (it's is really sweet of you guys)....I end-up having 10 massage in my email with the same content. (this is when the sweet part turns a little bit bitter....I had to do spring clean-up guys)

I thank you for your generosity but if you really want to forward a massage that you received, can you at least make an effort to clean up part of the forwarding content. At least people will know that you did make an effort to send the 'informative massage' instead of just clicking the 'forward' button and pour all you address book content as the receipient.

I've stop reading my Friendster massage long ago after being bored with all the forwarded content. I pity the web designer, his noble intention of making it easy for people to contact each other had been turn to an annoyance existence. It is truly is a waste of database.

I got a lotta best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know! - Archie Bunker